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UNTREATED sewage spilled into the sea for more than ten hours according to the Environment Agency.
After a power failure at Southern Water’s wastewater treatment works on Saturday, sewage flowed into the sea west of Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne.
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An Environment Agency spokesman said an investigation was ongoing.
“EA officers have taken seawater samples from Eastbourne and Pevensey to aid our investigation,” he said.
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